Mr.
Michalczewski is both a surprising advocate for gay rights and the
perfect choice for the role: He is white, heterosexual, Catholic, rich,
professionally successful and widely popular, and thus more likely to
persuade conservatives than a liberal intellectual or politician. A
typical young man from an economically depressed town that doesn’t have a
single movie theater but has five churches might not get a chance to
read a progressive manifesto. The opinions of a legendary boxer who grew
up under similar circumstances, meanwhile, might prove
thought-provoking. ...The
key to Mr. Michalczewski’s persuasiveness lies in feelings, not in
arguments, or biography. “You know what I like about him?” a friend
asked me after watching an interview with the boxer. “His natural
understanding of human relationships is really impressive. He is not an
intellectual, but he’s able to argue very effectively because he’s
honest and empathetic.” In
this fight, it is empathy that leads Mr. Michalczewski forward, and
draws people to him. It is what brought the boxer to the L.G.B.T.
movement in the first place: He has long emphasized the role of those
who helped him escape poverty and his sinister surroundings by engaging
him in sports.

Poland's best-known gay activist (left) isn't gay and
who put this picture on AKSARBENT? Oh, is that
another empty Chianti bottle we see? Never mind.

Right-wing politicians in Poland are advised to handle Michalczeski with kid gloves:

...After
the nationalist owner of the beer company Ciechan made a series of
crude comments about Mr. Michalczewski’s mother, he found his beer
boycotted across the country.

Maynard (Bob "Gilligan's Island" Denver) slyly flashes a nipple to the CBS eye while trying to talk his best buddy Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hick­man) into taking off all his clothes. Whoever said 1950s television was a vast waste­land obviously didn't know where to look.